Dear ONE Colleagues,
For those coming to Montreal, we would like to invite you to the following Showcase Symposium, in which we will explore some of the social and political implications of standardisation and certification of 'sustainability' criteria of food and farmed commodities:
Cultivating Exclusion: Complexities of Sustainability Certification in the Food Sector
Monday, Aug 9 2010, 9:45AM - 11:15AM at The Queen Elizabeth in the Matapedia room
http://program.aomonline.org/2010/submission.asp?mode=showsession&SessionID=852
Presenters:
Kate Sikavica (University of Munich)
Maarten van der Kamp (Lancaster University)
Sarah Bigney (Independent), Mark Haggerty and Stephanie Welcomer (University of Maine)
Linda Sama (St. John's University)
The aim of the symposium is to explore the intended and unintended consequences of how third-party standards and their certification operate: how they create and maintain difference so that objects, practices and actors can be classified according to specific framings of social and environmental problems. Panel members will provide a critical perspective on 'doing' sustainability labelling in the food sector by elaborating on how certification cultivates difference and indeed exclusion.
Coincidentally, the session following our symposium in the Matapedia room happens to be another Showcase Symposium on sustainability labelling (Buying Better Lemons: The Difusion of Environmental Standards) for anyone interested in another dimension of standards.
We hope to see you in Montreal!
Kind regards,
Maarten
Maarten van der Kamp
Organisation, Work & Technology
Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster University
Bailrigg, Lancaster
LA1 4YX
United Kingdom